Researchers have come up with a strategy to produce 100% sustainable energy. One of the favorite arguments against alternative energy is that it isn’t available all the time. The sun goes down. The wind stops blowing. Gotta have that oil! Gotta have that natural gas! If there are accidents due to drilling or fracking, well, […]
Workers descend on McDonald’s shareholders meeting on Thursday, demanding living wages. As McDonald’s holds its annual meeting on Thursday, low wage workers—buoyed by successes from the “unstoppable” Fight for $15 movement—are confronting the burger giant and again demand a decent wage and union rights. On Wednesday, in addition to a mid-day strike at the flagship […]
Brad Paisley has something to say about transgender bathroom laws. Country music legend Brad Paisley sang a song about North Carolina’s controversial transgender bathroom law Tuesday night. Paisley pulled out a guitar on Tuesday while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live and belted out a a re-worked version of Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man.” “Sometimes […]
Jimmy Carter has some harsh words for Donald Trump. Former President Jimmy Carter told The New York Times on Monday that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has committed “a violation of basic human rights” and has “tapped a waiting reservoir there of inherent racism.“ As The New York Times reports: In an interview on […]
Protesters throw rocks at police officers at a Trump rally in Albuquerque. Protesters lit fires, broke through barriers, smashed a door and threw rocks at Albuquerque police officers at a Tuesday night campaign rally for Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. NBC News reports that “at around 8 p.m., protesters opposed to the presumptive […]